Spreading the Word During the Holiday Season

[Mathieu Avoine]

Or do like me, dual-boot and keep your XP to do stuff Linux can't do right
now. It's like keeping your comfy blanket close to you in case you need it.
Also, it's super easy to do since the installer automagically recognizes
your winxp and offers you to setup the dual boot for you. Linux is
sweeeeeet. However, you winxp must be installed first, because if you
install windows after installing linux, well, windows is not so sweet ;)

Personally, I use Ubuntu 95% of the time. I use XP to play games because
playing games on linux is still way too much time consuming for me. Tweaking
and hacking is not my favorite sport yet, I just want it to work. When it
gets better support I will switch completely. Also, right now my Open Office
is broken (won't start) so I have to log on to XP to update my accounting
spreadsheets (no worries everyone, I use Open Office for Windows too!!).

Anyways, cheers and welcome Darren!

Math

On 12/27/06, Andrew Hunter <andy.hunter at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 27 December 2006 20:35, Darren Zawislak wrote:
> > Tee Jay Rosene wrote:
> > > I hope everyone here on Ubuntu Canada has enjoyed the Holiday Season.
> > > Such a
> > > season is a great opportunity to spread the word about Ubuntu amongst
> > > family
> > > and friends, and I was just wondering if anyone has done any of this
> over
> > > the holiday season, and how successful this has been?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > New Ubuntu user here. Just partitioned my hard drive and loaded the
> > software today. Nice.
> >
> > A friend told me about Ubuntu at a Christmas party after I was
> > expressing concerns about what I was reading about Vista. I am not a
> > programmer, network specialist, etc. Just a very good Windows/Office
> > user who builds computers on the side.  So this will be a interesting
> > experiment. It is very hard to turn away from my stable XP Pro
> > environment.
>
> I can understand that.
>
> My sugestion is try a native ubuntu installation with a spare machine.
> That
> way, there is nothing to worry about.
>
> > Decisions about which software to view and archive my
> > numerous e-mail accounts, etc, are all up in the air. I guess it is like
> > giving up a security blanket. Wait a minute, did I mention security and
> > Windows in the same sentence?  Oops, sorry!
> >
> > --
> > There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary,
> and
> > those who don't. Duh.
>
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